News on Child Abuse

Catholic leader rejects celibacy-abuse link

2010-03-19T17:15:44Z

<div><p>There is no statistical connection between child abuse and celibacy, England's top Catholic cleric said Friday, ahead of the publication of a papal letter to the Irish faithful over an abuse scandal.</p><p>Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster and the leader of Catholics in England and Wales, told Germany's biggest sex abuse scandal, focus is on priests at Roman Catholic schools</div><div><p>In the home country of Pope Benedict XVI, new revelations of child abuse by Roman Catholic priests at German high schools are surfacing almost daily.</p><p>The Catholic church in Germany — where around 30 percent of people consider th...

Phoenix couple enter pleas in child abuse case

2010-02-23T03:30:11Z

<div id="subtitle">Ariz. couple plead not guilty to child abuse charges; girl allegedly locked in room for months</div><div><p>A Phoenix couple indicted on child abuse charges involving their 14-year-old daughter have entered not guilty pleas.</p><p>Police say the malnourished girl was locked in a bathroom without running water for two months, beaten with metal rods, and forced to exercise until...

AP NewsAlert

2010-02-22T09:00:58Z

<div id="subtitle">Haitian attorney says 8 of 10 Americans charged with child kidnapping will be released</div><div><p>Haitian attorney says 8 of 10 Americans charged with child kidnapping will be released.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=69515548&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div> Copyright 2010 &lt...

Kournikova's mom charged with felony child neglect

2010-02-22T09:01:46Z

<div id="subtitle">Tennis star Anna Kournikova's mother officially charged with felony child neglect</div><div><p>Tennis star Anna Kournikova's mother has been formally charged with felony child neglect in Florida.</p><p>She was arrested in January and released from the Palm Beach ...

Pope tells Irish bishops pedophilia a heinous crime

2010-02-22T09:17:40Z

<div><p>VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict told Irish bishops during two days of crisis talks over a pedophilia scandal that sexual abuse of children by priests was a "heinous crime" that they must address with resolve, the Vatican sa...

APNewsBreak: US study shows drop in child abuse

2010-02-22T12:34:51Z

<div id="subtitle">APNewsBreak: Federal study finds sharp drop in serious child abuse between 1993 and 2006</div><div><p>A massive new federal study documents an unprecedented and dramatic decrease in incidents of serious child abuse, especially sexual abuse. Experts hailed the findings as proof that crackdowns and public awareness campaigns had made headway.</p><p>An estimated 553,000 children suffered physical,...

CHILD ABUSE

2010-02-02T13:02:31Z

Chart shows decrease in the number of children abused in the U.S.

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Pope, Irish bishops plan summit on child abuse

2010-02-22T17:49:25Z

<div id="subtitle">Pope invites Irish bishops to Vatican summit to discuss papal response to child-abuse scandals</div><div><p>Ireland's Roman Catholic bishops are being summoned next month to a Vatican summit with Pope Benedict XVI to shape the pontiff's response to child-abuse scanda...

Two Britons sentenced for paedophilia in Albania

2010-02-22T21:34:05Z

<div><p>A court in Albania on Tuesday sentenced two Englishmen to lenghty prison terms for sexually molesting and abusing children at an orphanage in Albania.</p><p>Dino Christodoulou, 45, and Robin Arnold, 56, received prison sentences of 20 and 15 years and six months respectively for sexually abusing children aged six to nine in the orph...

Two more Irish bishops to resign over child abuse

2010-02-23T11:19:20Z

<div><p>DUBLIN (Reuters) - Two more Irish bishops have said they will offer their resignations to the Pope, bringing the total number of church leaders to quit after a damning report into child sex abuse by priests to four.</p><p>Bishops Eamonn Walsh and Ray...

Second Irish bishop offers to quit in abuse scandal

2010-02-23T12:00:56Z

<div><p>DUBLIN (Reuters) - A second Irish bishop named in a damning report into child sex abuse by priests offered his resignation to the Pope on Wednesday.</p><p>Bishop Jim Moriarty, who was due to retire in two years, said that while the report did not cri...

2 sought in torture of 5-year-old CA boy

2010-02-23T12:21:10Z

<div id="subtitle">2 fugitives sought in torture of 5-year-old Southern California boy over 5 months</div><div><p>California authorities are searching for a man and a woman accused of torturing a 5-year-old boy for five months.</p><p>San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies say the boy was deprived of food and water, sexually molested and b...

Child abuse crisis to spark Irish Church shake-up

2010-02-23T17:31:22Z

<div><p>VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict expressed "outrage, betrayal and shame" on Friday at the sexual abuse of children by priests in Ireland, which Church leaders said would lead to a shake-up of the Irish VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Ireland's top Roman Catholic leaders will hold talks with Pope Benedict this week to formulate the Vatican's response to an Irish government report on a 30-yea...

Victims urge wider probe into Irish Catholic sex abuse

2010-02-23T23:54:07Z

<div><p>Investigations into child sex abuse by Catholic priests in Ireland should be extended nationwide, a leading campaigner said Friday a day after a damning study condemned a decades-long cover-up.</p><p>The call came as one Irish newspaper branded the abuse of children in the care of the Catholic Church, which was covered up for more than 30 years by senior clergy, as "satanic," and "rampan...

Irish Catholic Church hid sex abuse for decades: official

2010-02-24T00:10:33Z

<div><p>Ireland's Catholic Church apologised Thursday after a damning new report showed it covered up child sex abuse over more than three decades.</p><p>The Irish government also said sorry for failing to protect children in the wake of the latest report, published six months after a first landmark study revealed widespread abuse of children in Catholic care.</p><p>"...

APTOPIX Ireland Catholic Abuse

2009-11-26T12:30:36Z

Ireland's Justice Minister Dermot Ahern puts his hand to his mouth during a press conference at Government Buildings regarding the cover up of child abuse within the Catholic church Thursday Nov. 26, 2009. Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in Dublin covered up decade...

Sex abuse report shames Irish Catholic Church

2010-02-24T00:13:45Z

<div><p>The Catholic Church in Ireland covered up widespread allegations of "evil" child sex abuse by priests for decades, according to a damning report released on Thursday.</p><p>Four archbishops routinely protected abusers and failed to inform police of the allegations, according to a three-year investigation into the Dublin Arch...

Woman who had nearly 370 animals gets probation

2010-02-24T02:50:08Z

<div id="subtitle">Mo. woman whose nearly 370 animals were seized gets probation in child endangerment case</div><div><p>A woman who had been charged with child endangerment after almost 370 animals were seized from her Missouri farm has been placed on two years of unsupervised probation.</p><p>Sixty-two-year-old